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Show EXPERT EXPLAINS 4 FEED SITUATION Livestock and poultry growers face an uncertain situation due to a recent order by the government restricting feeding of wheat, according ac-cording to A. F. Bracken, extension exten-sion agronomist at Utah State Agricultural college, County Agent Ag-ent S. R. Boswell announced. Utah is a cereal importing state, depending upon surpluses of other areas for feeding livestock, the agronomist said, and while the period between now and harvest appears most critical, yet in the year ahead we may still face restrictions re-strictions in order to meet food needs. But adjustments can be made to partly relieve the local situation, he stated. In 1945, a total of 66,000 acres of spring wheat, 150.000 acres of barley, and 47,000 acres of oats were harvested in Utah, Professor Bracken said. Goals for these crops in 194G call for seeding 70,-000 70,-000 acres of spring wheat, 160,000 acres of barley, with no change for oats. The high acre yields of 1945 likely will not be repeated again this coming year, the agronomist predicted, but if average yields are produced, Utah farmers will grow as much barley and spring wheat as in 1945, provided acreage acre-age goals are reached. To meet critical worldwide needs for additional addi-tional wheat as food, Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, has issued a recent order asking that spring wheat goals be increased five percent or more. This would mean a total seeding of 73,500 acres of Utah, he said. Farmers can comply with this order much to their advantage by substituting wheat for oats and, to produce more feed, substituting barley for oats, according to the agronomist. It the average yield of these three grains is multiplied by respectve digestible feed val ues, barley produced 1604 pounds to an acre, wheat 1527, and oats 881 pounds. From these yields, if barley is given a value of 100, wheat only drops to 94, but oats fall to the low level of 55. |
